50 People On ‘The One Story That Gives Me The Chills To This Day’

“He sits up, looks over her shoulder, and sees what she’s doing, still in her sleep: loading his revolver.”
“He sits up, looks over her shoulder, and sees what she’s doing, still in her sleep: loading his revolver.”
6. Saying it wrong: “Suppository of information.” Doing it right: “Repository of information”
Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.
Recover from your disappointment with the ‘Dexter’ finale by rebounding with something new. You need that in your life.
If I’m in a bad mood, I would just be passive aggressive and give him the silent treatment by going into a corner and ignoring him.
Go to a free event. There is so much free stuff to do in the summer. Winter = we’re annoyed that it’s cold out so we’re going to charge for everything. Summer = OMG, we’re so laidback! Come hang at our cool event for free!
You walk into the recruiter office and eyeball those posters of soldiers with stern faces of quiet dignity and confidence, you lack both.
My time of reckoning came when I needed to fix insomnia, and non-fiction business books before bed just compounded the problem. I began reading fiction to “turn off” and instead saw breakthroughs in creativity and quality of life as a side-effect.
“People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder.”
Sure, love is compromise, but love also means not being afraid to ask for what you were told was impossible. Love means being denied and saying, “More please.”
Godard said that to respond to a movie, we must make a better one, and that’s what Hughes has done here.
A lot of people around the world have ideas of what America is like, possibly thanks to Hollywood, or their local news channels, and maybe from what they’ve heard from families and friends. But then, they came here, to the grand old United States and their minds exploded.
A new stack of $100 bills is one hundred hundreds — $10,000. That went in my jeans.
Keeping your fingernails neat and trimmed is a sign of sexual intelligence. No girl wants you venturing around her nether regions with jagged talons.